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ACCESS:VFX is a global, industry-led, non-profit comprised of 40 leading companies, industry bodies and educational establishments in the VFX, animation and games industries. It focuses on actively pursuing and encouraging inclusion, diversity, awareness and opportunity under its four pillars of Inspiration, Education, Mentoring and Recruitment.
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ACCESS:VFX has united over 100 passionate people (many from competing companies) around the common goal of addressing the lack of diversity in the VFX industry. Together they have run more than 50 events and reached thousands of potential future employees of primary school age and above across the UK, US and Canada – working with organisations including We Are Stripes, Into Film and This Ability.

Primary Activity: Education and Training

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Axis Studios is an award-winning entertainment company, founded in Glasgow in 2000 by CEO Richard Scott, in partnership with Dana Dorian, Stuart Aitken and Graham McKenna. It boasts an international team of directors, designers, artists, animators, writers and producers, working across its studios.

As well as being the largest animation studio in Scotland, it also has one of the largest CGI teams in the UK. Axis Studios is building on our track record of creating narratively compelling work in animated entertainment & VFX, to originate and deliver ground-breaking content of the highest quality that engages audiences worldwide.

Its recent awards include: 3 Daytime Emmy’s and an Annie award for Lost in Oz S1, a BAFTA Scotland award for Netflix’s Love, Death and Robots, A Bifa award for Earlyman, and an RTS craft award for KMF. Axis Studios is currently working on developing its own IP and creating ground-breaking animation and VFX content for some of the biggest names in video games, television, film, on-line, theme parks and more including, the ‘Helping Hand’ episode of Netflix’s ‘Love, Death and Robots’ and the SyFy series ‘Happy’.

Primary Activity: Animation Production

Other Activities: Animation Production, VFX

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Bait Studio are a true boutique motion design and visual effects studio based in Cardiff Bay.

“We’re driven by design, inspired by collaboration and infectiously passionate about what we do — creating enticing visuals for TV, Film, Advertising and Music. ”

Recent VFX work includes – Roald & Beatrix, Dream Horse, Amulet, Industry, Amulet, Apostle.

Recent Titles Design includes – Bancroft (Series 1 & 2), Bang, Pobol Y Cwm, The Call Up.

Awards:

4 X BAFTA Cymru

• Visual Effects  – Apostle
• Visual Effects − A Poet in New York
• Motion Design − Tribe
• Motion Design – Amazon

1 X RTS Award

• Animation – ABC

Bait Studio’s VFX reel: vimeo.com/360797236

Bait Studio’s Titles reel: vimeo.com/252377211

Primary Activity: VFX

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Bomper is an independent creative production studio, creating work filled with character and originality.

Our work for advertising, branding and broadcast, spans live action VFX, hand-crafted animation to hyperreal CG, and everything in between.

The team is made up of talented in-house artists, illustrators, animators, art directors and producers. Our credo is to constantly embrace our natural-curiosity and challenge our ambitions, by playing with mediums and formats, in crafting our best work. And of course, having a lot of fun along the way.

It’s this energy and dedication that makes Bomper stand out.

Primary Activity: Animation Production

Other Activities: Animation and VFX, Animation Services, Design, Motion Capture, Motion Graphics, PreViz, Production, VFX, Virtual production, Voiceover recording

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Primary Activity: Animation Production

Other Activities: Animation, Animation and VFX, Animation Production, VFX

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Double Negative (DNEG) is one of the world’s leading visual effects, animation and stereo conversion companies for feature film and television, with studios in London, Vancouver, Mumbai, Los Angeles, Chennai, Montréal, Chandigarh, Hyderabad and Goa.

Since DNEG’s first studio opened in London in 1998, they have always thrived on collaboration and the creative energy this provides, dedicated to delivering excellence on every project. DNEG brought home the Oscar for “Best VFX” for three out of the last four years. In total, DNEG has been honoured with 4 Academy Award wins, 4 BAFTA Awards and 8 Visual Effects Society Awards for their visual effects work on “Blade Runner 2049”,”Dunkirk”, “Ex Machina”, ”Interstellar”, ”Inception” and “Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows Part 2”.

DNEG craft spectacular visuals for some of the world’s biggest films. Recent work includes Pacific Rim Uprising, Annihilation, Black Panther, Justice League, Thor: Ragnarok, Blade Runner 2049, Dunkirk, Baby Driver and Wonder Woman. Their Feature Animation division collaborates with filmmakers and IP owners to create high-end animated feature films.

DNEG’s TV VFX division tailors our experience, skills and pipeline for the specific needs of high-end television programming. Recent TV projects include Altered Carbon, Black Mirror Season 4, Marvel ‘s Inhumans, Krypton, Strike – The Silkworm and BrainDead.

DNEG’s industry-leading stereo conversion team has delivered some of Hollywood ‘s biggest theatrical 3D experiences, including Pacific Rim Uprising, Beauty and the Beast, Transformers: The Last Knight, Kong: Skull Island and Gravity.

Primary Activity: VFX

Other Activities: VFX

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We’re experts in crafting outstanding Visual Effects for TV and Film. Living by our values, we deliver gorgeous work whilst leading change in the industry we love.

That’s why we are focused on working smart, treating people right and doing the best for our clients. This starts with conversation around clean transparent data, about how our B Corp commitments can help our clients achieve their sustainability targets.

We are not perfect, but we are proactive. We deeply consider our impact on the world – on our team, our clients, our suppliers, and on the communities we live and work in.

Primary Activity: VFX

Other Activities: Animation and VFX

Ealing Studios is an independent British Studio, developing, financing and producing feature films for international distribution.

Ealing Studios’ extensive facilities provide stages and services for independent and major international production in a convenient central London location; the Studio community incorporates a wide variety of companies providing services to the film, television and media business.

Home to the birth of British cinema, Ealing Studios has been at the forefront of media revolution since 1902. Many of Britain’s most ground-breaking dramas of the 20th century were shot here, for the big and small screen alike. The Studios have launched the careers of a multitude of award-winning directors, writers and actors.

Spotlight On: Ealing Studios

Primary Activity: Studio Facilities

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Electric Theatre is an independent, award-winning collective comprised of a super-talented, diverse bunch of artists, makers and innovators.

“Electric Theatre Collective is home to the best talent in the business across all visual creativity disciplines; CGI, 2D, animation and colour grading. We’re obsessed with producing the most creative, visionary and quality work in the industry.

In nearly 10 years we’ve grown from 4 people to having studios in London, LA and Bristol. We embrace technological advancement and celebrate and nurture the best people, creating the perfect blend of youth and experience.

We pride ourselves on creating unique, experimental work that combines the cultural interest of art with the polish and accessibility of commerce. It’s this ethos that has seen us establish ourselves as one of the world’s foremost VFX companies garnering accolades globally, continually ranking in the top 3 visual effects companies in the world.”

View Electric Theatre Collective latest show-reel here: https://electrictheatre.tv/showreels/company-reel

Primary Activity: VFX

Other Activities: Colour Grading, VFX

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ENVY is a multi-award winning Post Production facility providing HD, UHD, 4K, and Dolby Vision HDR picture alongside 5.1, 7.1 and 7.1.4 Dolby Atmos audio studios across 6 sites in Central London. ENVY provides over 200 suites for Off-Line/On-Line editing, Baselight Grading, Sound and 2D and 3D VFX and have recently added 2 new divisions. REMOTE, a brand new platform designed by ENVY to bring Production, Editing On-Site and Editing Remote together and CAPTURE, a new fixed rig division. All this supported by creative and technical teams who thrive on collaborations with their clients.

ENVY has worked on a host of EMMY, BAFTA, RTS, Grierson, D&AD winners to name a few and regularly work on projects such as Gogglebox, The Voice UK and Top Gear. To view many more projects ENVY worked on please visit: www.envypost.co.uk

Primary Activity: Post Production

Other Activities: Animation and VFX, Archiving, Audio Post Production, Colour Grading, Deliverables, Fixed Rig Services, Offline Editing, Online Editing, Post Production, SFX, VFX

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FINAL PIXEL is a global creative studio, specializing in Virtual Production Our work is all about reality, veracity, credibility. We construct filmic illusions that are so convincing, people who see them think they are real. We are operating at the intersection of creativity and technology, at the bleeding edge of creative-led virtual production.

We are not a VFX house, though we have created hundreds of VFX-based commercials in our time. We are a creative studio, led by filmmakers, dedicated to client service. We write, produce, direct and shoot.

FINAL PIXEL is a global business, pushing the boundaries of photorealism, to create convincing, emotionally engaging content.

Primary Activity: Virtual Production

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Primary Activity: VFX

Flying Duck Studio Lab is an ethical and inclusive film and design studio powered by ducks.

We specialise in animation and design, producing the highest quality of compelling, visually stunning, and story-driven content, with the best team from all around the world. A hybrid duck with a beautiful studio in Hebden Bridge, working on-site and remotely.

We cover; Advertisement, Branding, Marketing, Social Media, Short & Feature films, Music Videos, Documentary, Interactive, VFX, Motion Graphics, Movie Titles and anything related to visual media.

We make the high-quality production available to everyone with optimised workflows, tools, and our diverse pool of artists.

Primary Activity: Animation Production

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Primary Activity: VFX

Lexhag VFX is a story-first visual effects studio based in the UK, founded in 2009 by VFX Supervisor Alexis Haggar. We are best known for our high-end TV and film work, including all five series of BBC’s Poldark and, most recently, ITV’s Too Close and Baby Cow’s The Witchfinder.

Our experienced team of makers, image-smiths, artists and technicians combine cutting-edge digital effects with traditional practical techniques to bring stories to life.

We have physical locations in London and Norfolk, supported by a cloud-based infrastructure that enables us to scale capacity with artists working securely from anywhere in the world.

Our work spans all stages of production, from concept and planning to on-set supervision, plate capture and shot delivery in post-production. Additionally, our team have supervised virtual production shoots at most of the major stages in the London area and set up bespoke units on location elsewhere.

Primary Activity: VFX

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Lightrunner Studio will deliver high-quality visual effects (VFX) to storytellers in feature films, television, and advertising. The new studio will focus on hero environments, animated creatures/characters, and FX.

In addition to bringing London-led VFX talent to help cater for the production industry’s ever-growing need for VFX, Lightrunner Studio will also have a dedicated research and development team (R&D) leveraging the new advancements in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence to deliver more projects without compromising quality. 

Showreel password: BF$@Dem0Reel2022

Primary Activity: VFX

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Lola Post Production is a high end creative VFX studio, servicing the advertising, broadcast TV and feature film sectors.

Based in an elegant building in north Soho, the company specialises in problem solving; integrating photo realistic CGI into live action to deliver seamless visual effects sequences.  At Lola the emphasis is on communication and collaboration; offering boutique company flexibility and bespoke VFX solutions tailored exactly to each project.

Alongside CG animation and compositing, supporting services include pre-production, pre-visualisation, VFX supervision on location to ensure that the effects shoot maximises available opportunities, digital matte painting, title design and project management.

Communication, co-operation and a good understanding of the challenges of physical production have established Lola’s reputation for professionalism. Experienced 2D compositors and CG animators work closely together to resolve even the toughest VFX ask – combining world class expertise to crack specific challenges and realise the vision of some of the world’s most prolific directors.

Primary Activity: VFX

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Magic Dust Visual Effects is a London-based, BIFA-nominated visual effects company. Magic Dust VFX was co-founded by an experienced VFX supervisor, who has over 15 years of experience of working on Hollywood films like Bond, Interstellar, Mission Impossible, The Fast and The Furious amongst other titles, and an ex-Warner Bros. senior executive. By working with some of the best artists in the industry, Magic Dust’s mission is to deliver the same or better quality visual effects as delivered by the large VFX facilities, to a wider range of film and television productions. As a company, we create a flexible, people-centric working environment that allows our team to flourish. Our recent projects include VFX for feature films and TV shows for the major streamers. As a British company, our projects qualify for the UK film, television and animation tax credits. Website: www.magicdustvfx.com Contact number: +44 208 064 1516 Contact email: info@magicdustvfx.com

Primary Activity: VFX

Other Activities: Animation and VFX, Animation Services, Motion Graphics, PreViz, Virtual production

Milk Visual Effects was founded by a small team of award-winning VFX supervisors and producers in 2013 and now employs over 200 staff across its sites in London and Cardiff.

Milk Visual Effects create innovative and complex sequences for feature films, high-end television and digital content, and was named one of the top 100 fastest growing British tech companies in the Sunday Times Hiscox Tech Track 100 in September 2017. Milk also won an Emmy in 2016 for work on the BBC/Hartswood Film ‘s Sherlock; and in 2016 co-founder Sara Bennett became the first woman in twenty years to win an Oscar for best VFX on the film Ex-Machina at the 88th Academy Awards.

The academy Award-winning visual effects studio creates innovative and complex sequences for high-end television and feature films such as Adrift; Alex Garland ‘s Annihilation; Kingsman: The Golden Circle; Netflix‘ Altered Carbon; Philip K. Dick ‘s Electric Dreams and the BBC ‘s Sherlock. Milk has won multiple awards for its creative work, including three consecutive BAFTA Television Craft awards for Doctor Who and critically acclaimed BBC drama Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell.

Milk’s credits also include Ben Wheatley features High Rise and Free Fire; The Martian (20^th Century Fox); The Divergent Series: Insurgent (Lionsgate/Summit); Poltergeist (Fox/MGM); Everest (Universal); Brett Ratner ‘s Hercules (Paramount/MGM); Dracula Untold (Universal); The Last Dragonslayer (Sky); ITV ‘s Thunderbirds Are Go and Paramount/TNT ‘s The Alienist for television.

Primary Activity: VFX

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Moonraker is a VFX studio set up and run by an experienced team of passionate and creative VFX specialists, led by Creative Director, Simon Clarke, and Managing Director, Jon Grafton.

Established in Bristol in 2013, Moonraker (formerly Coffee and TV Bristol), has built a strong local and international reputation with producers and broadcasters, creating award-winning visual effects content for Television, Film, Commercials, Museums and Visitor Attractions. The studio is home to a team of the industry’s leading artists who innovate, design and digitally craft visual effects for any screen. Their combined creative and technical talents make beautiful moving images.

Specialising in: Television Visual Effects, Museums, Visitor Attractions and Family Entertainment Centres, Design and Motion Graphics

Primary Activity: VFX

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We’re Move, an award-winning animation studio in Brighton turning ideas into animated stories full of character, magic and joy. We inspire people to think differently by transporting them to new worlds.

Our team of passionate animators, illustrators, designers and directors, create striking and engaging visual content for broadcast, print, online and mobile platforms.

We create memorable experiences through an array of creative disciplines, offering a complete set of production services from script to screen. We bring together concept art, character design, storyboarding, 2d and 3d animation, motion graphics, post production, sound design, vfx and app development.

We have worked with big brand names such as Mattel, LEGO, Toyota, HSBC, and Nintendo.

We make new worlds. Let us Move yours…

Primary Activity: Animation Production

Other Activities: Animation and VFX, Animation Services, Design, Games or Interactive Design, Motion Graphics, Post Production, Production, Production Services

Primary Activity: Education and Training

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Outpost VFX create stunning visual effects for film and episodic productions.

Headquartered in Bournemouth, UK, and with offices in Montréal, London and Los Angeles, Outpost VFX exists to bring vivid creative ideas to life by harnessing artistry, technology and innovation.

Best known for creating striking environments, seamless digital makeup and photoreal creatures, we deliver all kinds of visual effects for all kinds of productions globally.

Since 2013 Outpost VFX have passionately embraced new technologies and new techniques that have empowered them to work with global content creators like Netflix, Amazon, Universal, HBO and Apple on visually arresting productions. Recent marquee projects have included News of the World, The Alienist: Angel of Darkness, and Watchmen.

Devoted to expressing ideas and encouraging change, Outpost VFX have developed a culture that is pioneering in its approach, based on five core values that guide everything they do: People, Innovation, Support, Creativity and Balance.

Primary Activity: VFX

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POST SUPER is a platform created to help and support Freelancers, Post Producers, Supervisors and Coordinators working in Film & High End Television. Key to this is enabling Production Houses, Studios, Creative Producers, Post Producers, Supervisors and Coordinators to effectively plan and execute Post Production, whilst providing a central community to come together through forums and knowledge sharing, to generate streamlined workflows, share best practices and proactively network.

POST SUPER’s aim is to deliver four key areas of support to a globally growing industry. Community, for sharing knowledge and networking. Information, with a Knowledge Hub for Post Management specific material. Training, delivering webinars and specific courses for post supervisors and managers, and Tools, a Post-Production Directory which helps connect post-production Facilities of all types (Picture, Sound & VFX) with the people who are actively looking for those services. This has also now gone one step further with a Freelance and Creative Directory.

Primary Activity: Post Production

Scanline VFX is a global visual effects studio with locations in Munich, Stuttgart, Los Angeles, Vancouver, Montreal, Seoul and London. The company is led by President and Senior Visual Effects Supervisor Stephan Trojansky.

Scanline is noted for its creation of natural phenomena such as fire, smoke and water on disaster epics such as San Andreas and Independence Day: Resurgence. Recent projects include Eternals, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, and Free Guy for director Shawn Levy. Its work as lead vendor on Godzilla vs. Kong highlights Scanline’s increasing expansion into character and creature work.

Founded in 1989 in Munich, Scanline established itself as an industry leader with the development of its proprietary fluid effects software, Flowline. Scanline was the sole developer of Flowline and in 2008, was the recipient of a Scientific and Technical Achievement Academy Award® for the software.

Scanline was nominated for an Academy Award® for Best Achievement in Visual Effects in 2010 for its work on Clint Eastwood’s Hereafter, for which it was the sole visual effects vendor. The film’s signature sequence was a recreation of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, which TIME Magazine called “the most exciting, expertly assembled flood scene in movie history.” In 2013, Scanline received a BAFTA nomination for its work on Iron Man 3 and in 2015, a second Academy Award® nomination for Captain America: The Winter Soldier.

In 2010, Scanline won its first Visual Effects Society (VES) Award for Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects for Hereafter. Scanline has two Emmy Awards to its credit for its work on Season Four and Season Eight of Game of Thrones as well as an HPA Award for Outstanding Visual Effects and VES Awards for Outstanding Created Environment and Outstanding Visual Effects in a Broadcast Program. In 2021, Scanline received its third Emmy nomination for its work on HBO’s The Nevers.

Primary Activity: VFX

Other Activities: Animation and VFX, Animation Services, Colour Grading, Motion Capture, PreViz, VFX, Virtual production

Tapocketa is an inventive, multi-award winning creative studio.

Headed up by co-founders Eleanor Long and Trevor Young, we specialise in a style of animation and illustration of our own making. The team love to work in innovative ways, often with paper puppets and motion capture, to create something special whilst cultivating a friendly, adaptable approach and a dedication to all we do.
With a collective background of VFX, model-making and fine art we always work to achieve the highest quality product for every client.

We launched with award-winning animated, interactive digital book ‘Galdo’s Gift: The Boovie’ sweeping the board at the Digital Book Awards, Nashville USA.

And we have since expanded the reach of our skills to animate other people’s artwork in inventive ways, and for this we operate as Mini-Tonic, www.mini-tonic.com

“Working with Tapocketa was an absolute pleasure. We loved the ideas, expertise and humour that they brought to the table. Like most projects we were short on time, but they made it a stress free process.”
— Rudine Cooks, Manager, Art Production Services, The Integer Group (Marketing Agency)

Primary Activity: Animation Production

Other Activities: Animation and VFX, Animation Services, Design, Games or Interactive Design, Immersive (AR/VR)

We provide cinematic, art driven, 2D animation and VFX for the film, television, games, corporate and music industries. At The 2D Workshop we’re obsessed with the art of filmmaking. Whether we’re creating character designs and animation for a jaw dropping ad campaign, bringing VFX magic to an all-star feature length TV series or writing and developing our own IP to showcase all that we love about film. Quality is key.

Primary Activity: Animation Production

Other Activities: VFX

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The Flying Colour Company is a niche high-end VFX and post production provider based in Soho, London. We specialise in providing high-quality VFX services to high-end broadcast drama productions and independently produced or tent-pole studio feature films.

Based in the heart of Soho, at 42 – 44 Carnaby Street, we are independently owned and highly flexible, with years of experience working at the top level. We pride ourselves on providing solutions and the highest quality service within an efficient and flexible model.

WHAT WE ARE

Effective: We provide a very personal and highly skilled on-set and remote supervision service that lays the groundwork for the VFX magic that follows and also helps to manage costs and expectations throughout the post-production process.

Creative: We use industry leading Flame, Nuke, Maya and Houdini workstations with a plethora of associated outboard software licenses, all of which are attached to a high speed network including an enormous amount of data storage and render power and offer the very best platform for our highly skilled and creative artists to create and deliver their, and your, work on.

Proactive: We also provide data editorial and vfx pulls, colour pipeline and workflow as well as data hosting. Our high-speed data network has been designed to store and manage your rushes from shoot through post. This enables us to do our own data pulls and conforms for our VFX which saves Production time and money.

Primary Activity: VFX

Union VFX is a boutique visual effects facility founded in 2008 by Adam Gascoyne and Tim Caplan, providing a creative service for feature film and television productions.

Located in the heart of Soho, London, the studio is an environment where originality and innovation flourish. Union’s team of exceptional supervisors, producers and artists share a combined wealth of experience and passion for filmmaking, which has established Union’s reputation for imaginative solutions, quick turnarounds and stunning results. As the trusted collaborators of many leading filmmakers, our clients return to Union time and again.

Union VFX support clients throughout every stage of the creative process. Services include VFX design and previs, CG animation, digital makeup effects (gore), compositing and matte painting, with core specialties in CG environment work and invisible effects.

Primary Activity: VFX

Other Activities: VFX

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Where great productions become extraordinary entertainment.

Warner Bros. De Lane Lea is an award-winning picture and sound post production facility in the heart of Soho combining the most advanced technology with skilled talent to provide an exceptional post production experience.

Based in a brand-new, purpose-built facility in the stunning new Ilona Rose House development in Soho, Warner Bros. De Lane Lea is home to the largest mixing stage in the UK and facilities include sound missing stages, grading theatres, a full mastering department, ADR facilities and cutting rooms.

Warner Bros. De Lane Lea also has additional facilities based at Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden including a 48 seat 4K Screening Room, 4K VFX Review Theatre and a Dailies department with dark-fibre connectivity to Soho.

With more than 70 years’ experience in the post production business, Warner Bros. De Lane Lea has worked with many of the world’s greatest talents on some of the most memorable productions including the Mission Impossible franchise, Wonder Woman, Gravity and the Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts film series.

Primary Activity: Post Production

Other Activities: ADR, Audio Post Production, Colour Grading, Dailies, DCP mastering, Deliverables, Digital Intermediate, Foley, IMF mastering, Localisation, Offline Editing, Online Editing, Post Production, Track laying, Voiceover recording

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